where's the guide to earn merits as fast as possible? you just compiled everything merit related that had good replies which can be seen from the meta's page 1-5. i was totally deluded by your title, you could've just said comments about these good posts.
And the best part is that he did not even check if all those threads are open or not. He added those giveaways which are closed as well like this
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=2843413.0 .
However, seeing that he is still a junior member, I still appreciate the time he took to compile the posts as one place. There is no way to gain merits fast. In my opinion, you should be fine with your current pace, there is no need to hurry about it. Gaining knowledge and Shari ideas with members should be your primary purpose here, merits will follow.
It is you guys that can not take the message he brought. With all that sources/thread you can not take any hints on how to make merit fast? i will tell you :
1. There are statistic about where people get merits, then, you should come after the merits there and post your quality posts there.
2. Look into any thread which the OP get a lot of merits, OP in this thread is saying that you can make thread like them too because idea to make contribution is everywhere and can be anything, you just can not read the message from OP here.
3. Some of the merit giveaway thread is closed? great then it means people already giveaway the merits and you can see all the merited posts and try to learn from all of that.
Still can not accept that is some way to gain merit fast or at least at a normal rate??? This is a forum man, sometimes people spoon feeding you, sometimes you need to take the hint.